Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Oct 1998 09:01:31 +0200 | From | Hendrik Visage <> | Subject | Re: WIPO treaty |
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Andrej Presern wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Slyglif Cain wrote: > >> However, in the US, reverse engineering in order to discover > >> interfaces so you can interoperate with something has been approved > >> in the court cases I'm aware of, so provided one is careful (i.e., > >> make sure what one does corresponds to what the people who won > >> those court cases did), it should be possible to reverse engineer > >> to discover interfaces. > > > >The US Senate passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA or WIPO) > >today. If accepted by the House, and signed by Clinton, reverse engineering > >for any reason (other then scholarly research for the next 2 years) will be > >illegal. It also gives the shrink-wrapped licenses more power, as it is an > >addition to the UCE (Microsoft could now say that if you want to sue them, you > >have to do so in Burma). Clinton has said he will sign it, and the House has > >already passed a similar version, so I would expect them to accept this as is. > > Congratulations. America is about to face a whole new dimension of criminality.
Not only (see below)
> This act enables companies like Microsoft to jeopardize everything they don't > like.
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> It's a sad day when you are officially forbidden to find out (LEARN) things for > any reason at all.
The worst still is that that could be a International fenomenal, since there's some organization (forgot the name and URL) that are actually pushing this on a worldwide scale...
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